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Newspaper chief editor gets ten years of custody for high treason

Mamadov and Guliyev were accused of anti-Azerbaijani propaganda on the newspaper pages “masked by loyal attitude to the state”.The indictment states that “Tolishi Sado” kept to the line of extreme nationalism, abused national feelings of representatives of other nationalities and prepared grounds for establishing Talishs autonomy based of Islam foundations and destruction of Azerbaijani state system.Novruzali Mamadov did not plead guilty. Elman Guliyev confessed from his part to the committed crimes, as well as to the relations with foreign spies and getting money from Iran. At the trial, he also testified against Novruzali Mamadov stating that the latter had aimed at publishing materials in the newspaper